ea0020p309 | Clinical case reports and clinical reports | ECE2009
Mogos Voichita
, Popescu Eugenia
, Popa Teodora
, Stefanescu Cipriana
, Zbranca Eusebie
, Grigorovici Alexandru
, Mihailovici Sultana
, Branisteanu Dumitru
Patient DE, a 49-year-old woman, was operated in 2005 for two giant-cell tumours of the mandible, and in 2008 for another tumour with the same localisation and histology. Inferior cervical ultrasound after the second surgery revealed a parathyroid adenoma of 20×27×15 mm behind the lower pole of the right thyroid lobe, confirmed by Tc tetrofosmin scintigraphy. The patient had metabolic features suggestive for primary hyperparathyroidism: calcium 10.9 mg/dl (nor...